Function Junction NorthWest Pale Ale
Whistler Brewing Company
- From:
- Whistler Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
Ranked #1,312 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 82
Ranked #34,974 - Avg:
- 3.46 | pDev: 13.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2026
- Added:
- Oct 26, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
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Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.43/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.75
3.43/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3.75
Vancouver 25/7 2018. 35,5 cl poured plastic cup at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Pours hazy golden amber with a small white head. Settles as thin patchy layer of foam. Moderate lacing.
Aroma is intensely fruity. Oranges and grapefruit juice. Citrus notes. Peachy sweetness.
Medium strong carbonation. Thin, watery, lively texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by medium strong bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter and a little watery.
Fresh and fruity. Goes nicely with an overpriced burger and fries at the Aquarium.
Feb 22, 2026Pours hazy golden amber with a small white head. Settles as thin patchy layer of foam. Moderate lacing.
Aroma is intensely fruity. Oranges and grapefruit juice. Citrus notes. Peachy sweetness.
Medium strong carbonation. Thin, watery, lively texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by medium strong bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter and a little watery.
Fresh and fruity. Goes nicely with an overpriced burger and fries at the Aquarium.
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.5/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.5/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Quite dark amber, a tea color, with abundant foam in the goblet. Aroma of grain and something musty. This has a taste of honey to go with the resins. Slightly sweet, a hint of bitterness. This is not the cleanest-tasting stuff, with something in the leaf mold vein and a touch of astringency. Still, it's quite drinkable and something different in the lower alcohol spectrum. From the 473 ml can purchased at the BC LIquor store. The usual screwball Canadian date stamp, unless the first part -- L24117 -- is a Julian date.
Sep 20, 2024
Reviewed by charleskimmle from Canada (BC)
2.29/5 rDev -33.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
2.29/5 rDev -33.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
not one of my favourite PAs, but it's hard to discern what I don't like about it. something seems funky about the malt maybe? the aftertaste sticks around way too long. It seems balanced, but yet something just seems off about it. It definitely tastes different than the other PAs, so it might be someone else's favourite. I recognize some flavours in the hops that I like in other brews, but they just don't seem to work well in this one.
Nov 04, 2022
Reviewed by patre_tim from Thailand
3.79/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Honey hazy with lots of fine bubbled carbonation and 3 fingers of beige head.
Smells of apple cider, caramel and black tea.
Tastes of apple cider, black tea and caramel.
Light body with moderate to high carbonation.
I got this in Banff, AB and am drinking it in Redding, CA, Aug 29th, 2019. Really decent pale ale.
Aug 30, 2019Smells of apple cider, caramel and black tea.
Tastes of apple cider, black tea and caramel.
Light body with moderate to high carbonation.
I got this in Banff, AB and am drinking it in Redding, CA, Aug 29th, 2019. Really decent pale ale.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.46/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a copper with two fingers of bubbly white head.
Smell - leafy and earthy hops, caramel, bready malts, and citrus fruits.
Taste - Mild bitterness from the leafy and earthy hops. The caramel, bready malts, and citrus fruits help to finish off the brew.
Mouthfeel - Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with a mild bitterness.
Overall - A brew that could use a little more hops but nonetheless an adequate attempt.
Jun 17, 2017Smell - leafy and earthy hops, caramel, bready malts, and citrus fruits.
Taste - Mild bitterness from the leafy and earthy hops. The caramel, bready malts, and citrus fruits help to finish off the brew.
Mouthfeel - Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with a mild bitterness.
Overall - A brew that could use a little more hops but nonetheless an adequate attempt.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml can - all I could think about when I first saw this offering's name was a web site from back in the day called 'Consumption Junction'. Let me see if it's still a going concern...apparently it is, but instead of being mostly pop culture, with a small porn sub-genre, it is now comprised entirely the latter, of course.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky ecru head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy ghoulish tree profile lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, faint domestic citrus rind, a subtle stoney flintiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a fading caramel add-on, still muddled citrus and estery pome fruity notes, more children's vitamin chalkiness, and some understated leafy, earthy, and gently resinous pine forest floor verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is rather restrained in its genteel frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, and well, that's about all right now. It finishes trending dry, the base malt bottoming out a tad, with the 'northwest' hops barely able to pick up the slack.
Overall, this comes across as an adequate version of the sub-style, the purported NW hops seeming to be ok, I suppose, but not really all that interesting. Not bad, but not particularly good, either, which when you start to specify an exact regional preference, you had better have all yer ducks in a row, as such.
Mar 01, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky ecru head, which leaves some streaky and sudsy ghoulish tree profile lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, faint domestic citrus rind, a subtle stoney flintiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a fading caramel add-on, still muddled citrus and estery pome fruity notes, more children's vitamin chalkiness, and some understated leafy, earthy, and gently resinous pine forest floor verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is rather restrained in its genteel frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, and well, that's about all right now. It finishes trending dry, the base malt bottoming out a tad, with the 'northwest' hops barely able to pick up the slack.
Overall, this comes across as an adequate version of the sub-style, the purported NW hops seeming to be ok, I suppose, but not really all that interesting. Not bad, but not particularly good, either, which when you start to specify an exact regional preference, you had better have all yer ducks in a row, as such.
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